Monitoring hunting impacts on wildlife in community-based protected areas in Papua New Guinea
The YUS Conservation Area was the first nationally gazetted community conservation area in Papua New Guinea. The YUS CA comprises numerous community-defined no-hunting zones embedded within a broader landscape of different land uses owned by communities from the fifty villages studded across the region. In this project, as part of a post-doctoral research program at James Cook University, a comprehensive ecological monitoring program was established to assess the effectiveness of the no-hunting zones for protecting key game wildlife species identified for protection by local communities. Using eDNA
Key impacts & project outputs
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Landscape monitoring study design
Rigorous study design to
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Monitoring protocol development
Automated workflows were developed for several aspects of the project's data management and analysis procedures boosting both their efficiency and reliability.
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Training & capacity building of students & conservation rangers
Established first community conservation range team in A range of engaging interactive data visualisations were developed to illuminate different dimensions of the leatherback turtle's breeding biology, movement patterns and diving behaviour.
Publications & media
The YUS Conservation Area Ecological Monitoring Plan 2012-2015
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Authors: Ziembicki, M., Krockenberger, A, Edwards, W. Porolak, G. & Kerr, S.
Cultural Conservation
Australian Geographic Magazine - May/June 2014
Published in the popular science magazine Australian Geographic c
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Authors: Mark Ziembicki
Photography: Mark Ziembicki & Tim Laman
Watch a short film produced by Nature on PBS about the Huon Tree Kangaroo and efforts to conserve it in the YUS Conservation Area, PNG